Parallel Verses
NET Bible
O Lord, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder!
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Holman Bible
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
International Standard Version
Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder.
A Conservative Version
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
American Standard Version
Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Amplified
Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Darby Translation
Jehovah, bow thy heavens, and come down; touch the mountains, that they smoke;
Julia Smith Translation
O Jehovah, incline thy heavens, and thou wilt come down: touch upon the mountains and they shall smoke.
King James 2000
Bow your heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Lexham Expanded Bible
O Yahweh, bow the heavens and come down; touch the mountains so that they smoke.
Modern King James verseion
Bow down Your heavens, O Jehovah, and come down; touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down; touch the mountains, that they may smoke withal.
New Heart English Bible
Part your heavens, LORD, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
The Emphasized Bible
O Yahweh! bow thy heavens and come down, Touch the mountains, that they smoke:
Webster
Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
World English Bible
Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
Youngs Literal Translation
Jehovah, incline Thy heavens and come down, Strike against mountains, and they smoke.
References
Hastings
Word Count of 19 Translations in Psalm 144:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A King's Prayer
4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears. 5 O Lord, make the sky sink and come down! Touch the mountains and make them smolder! 6 Hurl lightning bolts and scatter them! Shoot your arrows and rout them!
Names
Cross References
Psalm 18:9
He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.
Psalm 104:32
He looks down on the earth and it shakes; he touches the mountains and they start to smolder.
Exodus 19:18
Now Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire, and its smoke went up like the smoke of a great furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.
Isaiah 64:1-2
If only you would tear apart the sky and come down! The mountains would tremble before you!
Nahum 1:3-6
He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.
Habakkuk 3:3-6
God comes from Teman, the sovereign one from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor covers the skies, his glory fills the earth.
Hebrews 12:18
For you have not come to something that can be touched, to a burning fire and darkness and gloom and a whirlwind